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On Wed, 31 Dec 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> There's tons of unnecessary "[PATCH, v5]" things in those commit headers, 
> and that seems to mean that you intentionally pass the "--keep" flag to 
> git to keep the crap in subject lines, rather than let git clean it up for 
> you.
> 
> Git by default will try to clean things up, so you literally have done 
> extra work to make your commits look like shit!

The alternative, of course, is that you're using some _really_ old git 
version, or that you have your own scripts that create the commits by 
hand. If so, please just update.

		Linus